Trump fled Turkey in a food truck: how Iran forced the US president to play out a spy thriller at the NATO summit
In July 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump carried out one of the boldest self-evacuation operations in the modern history of the White House. After the NATO summit in Ankara, he demonstratively boarded the old Air Force One under the lenses of cameras—and a few minutes later was already hiding in a catering container that usually transports food onto aircraft. That is how the American leader secretly transferred to a military C-32A and left Turkey under the threat of an assassination attempt by Iran. What initially looked like a routine aircraft swap turned into a genuine cover operation, which the world only learned about a month later.